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ABOUT
THE JOURNAL
F or twenty-five years, Arts & Letters has attracted both emerging and well-established writers, publishing the likes of Bruce Bond, Denise Duhamel, Donald Hall, Bret Lott, Maxine Kumin, Sonja Livingston, Opal Moore, Bob Hicok, Xu Xi, Lia Purpura, Marianne Boruch, Keith Wilson, and Jesse Lee Kercheral.
Martin Lammon founded the journal in 1999 at Georgia College, where it continues to operate out of the MFA Program in Creative Writing. Lammon served as Editor until 2015; under his guidance, Arts & Letters became a well-respected venue for poetry, fiction, essays, and translations. The printed journal appears biannually, in Spring and Fall issues.
In 2015, Arts & Letters welcomed its second-ever Editor, Laura Newbern, who stepped up from her post as Poetry Editor. Her second collection of poems, A Night in the Country, was selected by Nobel Laureate Louise Glück for the Changes Book Prize; her first book, Love and the Eye, was selected by Claudia Rankine for the Kore Press. She is the recipient of a Writer’s Award from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, and her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Georgia Review, Poetry, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere.
Arts & Letters’ beautiful full-color covers are designed by Peter Selgin.
What does Arts & Letters publish?
W e publish poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, and flash; we also consider poetry translations.
Our editors seek work that doesn’t try too hard to grab our attention but rather guides it toward the human voice and its perpetual struggle into language. We’re open to both formal and experimental prose and poetry; we’re also open to work that defies classification. Above all, we look for work in which we can feel writers surprising themselves.
We pay our contributors: check our Submit > Regular page for details.
W e promote contributors in every way possible. For interested contributors, we tweet lines from accepted pieces @ArtsLettersGC, and sometimes write up mini-profiles to publish on our newsfeed. We proudly nominate for The Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, Best American Short Stories, and Best American Essays.
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WHO WE ARE
OUR STAFF
Fiction Editor: Chika Unigwe
Creative Nonfiction Editor: Peter Selgin
Poetry Editor: Kerry James Evans
Managing Editor: Alexis Calhoun
Assistant Managing Editor: Isabelle Anderson
Assistant Unclassifiable Editor: Nathanael Williams
Assistant Poetry Editor: Emma Garcia
Assistant Creative Nonfiction Editor: Dan Johnston
Assistant Fiction Editors: Jordan Crider & Christian Gurrola
Assistant Flash Fiction Editor: Michaela Reed
Founding Editor: Martin Lammon
OUR READERS
Ash Earnhardt
Christina Faber
Kay Hammond
Serena Kerkstra
Richard Lassiter
Noah Lorey
Cas McKinney
Katelyn Moorman
Sarah Neilson
Michael Sevcik
Elissa Williams